What specifically causes the pain in terminal cancer?
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Pain is usually a sign that something is wrong - that you have an illness or injury to your body. When there is damage to any part of your body, your nervous system sends a message along nerves to your brain. When your brain receives these messages, you feel pain. Nerves transmit all pain in this way, including pain caused by your cancer. Many people with cancer do not have pain. This is because cancers do not have any nerves of their own. A growing tumour can press on nerves near to where it is growing and that is what causes pain. Between 3 and 5 out of 10 people with cancer (30 – 50%) will have some sort of pain. With advanced cancer, pain is more likely. Advanced cancer means the cancer has spread or come back since it was first treated. Between 7 and 9 out of 10 people with advanced cancer (70 – 90%) will have pain. http://tinyurl.com/2gtmr6
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